TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - It's not all about guns and gangs: role overload as a source of stress for male and female police officers
JO  - Policing and society
A1  - Duxbury, Linda
A1  - Halinski, Michael
SP  - 930
EP  - 946
VL  - 28
IS  - 8
N2  - This research uses male (n = 1169) and female (n = 300) samples of police officers and multivariate techniques to test a model which hypothesises: (1) work-role overload and family-role overload will predict stress, (2) objective (i.e. hours employed) and subjective (i.e. non-supportive culture, pressures to perform work outside their mandate, competing demands) work demands will predict work-role overload, (3) objective (i.e. dependent care hours) family demands will predict family-role overload and (4) gender differences across all paths. <br><br>RESULTS showed the relationship between work-role overload and stress was stronger for male police officers, whereas the relationship between family-role overload and stress was stronger for female police officers. Hours employed, performing work outside one's mandate, and perceptions of the work culture as non-supportive were stronger predictors of work-role overload for the female officers in our sample than for their male counterparts. The path between hours in dependent care hours and family-role overload was also stronger for female than male police officers. Competing work demands, on the other hand, was a stronger predictor of work- role overload for male than female police officers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1043-9463
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2017.1342644
ID  - ref1
ER  -